Wow... so, I wonder what AT&T, Verizon and Sprint say about Apple telling iPhone users not to text.

A vendor like Apple that can't get their stuff together enough to fix an issue, so they decide to take it out on their resellers? I DARE anyone else in the technology ecosystem to try pulling a stunt like that.

I agree with all of you. And like Mack Knife said, it could just be a ploy to push an "i" based messaging system to make it popular in as little time as possible. Really Apple, if Steve J. was around, would this have gone by?Unfortunately, a fix will come in the form of a new iOS upgrade/update and anyone using an iPhone 3 or lower may end up being forced to upgrade. Then again, this could be another reason to force people to upgrade to a new iPhone from their old one.

Yes, outrageous on the face of it. But come on, Apple always makes a defensive blowhard comment like that to deflect criticism while they work on a fix. It's amazing that they haven't figured out what a stupid strategy that is but for now I'll assume that they are true to form and will fix it the problem in due time.

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